Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1887-08-17
Tutti Frutti Preserves.

A bright little woman who delights
In being known as ''the mater" to four
sturdy lads, was found the other day in
pleased and absorbed contemplation of
IA colossal stone Jar.
"By next October" she announced,
that jar Will be brImful of the best
preserves you ever tasted.
When asked if she didn't think it a
sinful waste OF time and money and
good fruit to make preserves, condu-
GIVE merely to the ruin of the health,
temper and good looks of her family.
she cried: Fudge and 1ddlesticks; not
a bit of it. l defy you to show me
merrier, stronger, roster set of fellows
than my boys. or course, preserves
are expensive; so are books and pic
| lures. SO Is music; SO is roast beef for
| that matter. Sweetmeats, in due proper
ton, have as much raison d'etre Is any
of them. Young people get a large
share OF their pleasure from the sense
of taste. Later on they get more from
| the eye and the ear. but who wants to
| deny them reasonable enjoyment of
| the pleasure they take in goodies.
| while the pleasure IL real and desirable
| to themp / would as soon think of
| keeping my boys forever at Greek
| grammar and algebra and forbldding
ball and tennis as to feed them forever
on roast beef and oat meal, and inter-
| dict cakes and candies. In moderation
they merely stimulate healthy diges-
| ton, as knotty problem stimulates
the intellect. The best physician in the
city told dyspeptic to eat anything he
| fancled II he wished to regain health
and didn't wish to diet himself into a
coffin.
az make preserves because the child
rem like them. and like me better for
| doing it. or course, the carefully
prepared home made ones are a thous-
| and times better than the bought stuff,
which looks beautiful, but, usually
being made of unripe fruit, flavorless
and insipid. / feel repaid for the
! trouble, in knowing that it contributes
to the happiness of a home and child
hood the attractiveness of which de-
pends on little things.
| "a child's fondness for sweets Is
net thing to be loftily sneered at.
! Do not the tempting dalnties or the
/ Arabian Nights appeal to the fancy
| of every unspoiled and unsecured adult,
who ever as a child longed to expert
ment on a cream tart with pepper in
/ it, and gloated over the daintles which
W la4C
| Fatlma2 What a winning. simple
I trait we think 1t in Herrick, that he
takes such evident delight in imaging
BRIDES cakes and spicy confections in
| conjunction with the beauties OF his
Julia, and do not the
"Candiep apple, ounce and plum and
gourd.
With iellies soother than the creamy
curd,
And lucent syrups tinct with CHINA
mon,
I Mamma and dates in argosy transferred
from Fez,
Add speed dainties, every one
From silken Samarcand TO cedared
Lebanon"
/ beauty with which Keats contrived to
| invest Tho Eve OF St Agnes?'
Sweetmeats are a part OF the romance
/ of life to child's imagination and
shonld be respected accordingly.
| Now, are you not convinced, and
don't you feel In a perfect fever TO go
home and start jar of tutti frutti pre-
servesy You'll End them utterly de-
| liciOus poured as a sauce over mold
Of ice cream even If it does sound
queer"
Tie tuttl fruttI preserves are to be
made as follows: Put quart Of white
brandy IN a stone jar, then during the
| year add whatever fruit you choose,
weighing 1t and adding an equal
weight OF sugar. The fruit is put in
/ the brandy raw, and every week the
mixture is stirred TO Keep the sugar
from setting to the bottom. My in
formant told me that any fruit could
be added, hut that pine apples, chopped
dne and also cut in cubes, cherries,
Strawberries, apricots, plums and
peaches would make the finest mix
ture omittiDg the seedy fruits like
blackberries and raspberries, which,
although itch in flavor, were apt to fan
In pieces and injure the appearance Of
the stew. The quart Of brandy an
swers for a large jar of the preserves,
as the sugar and fruit juices keep
adding to the syrup, and the whole can
be kept any length of time-if locked